Qual Fantasie

?, Germany - † after 2017, ?

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The work Duds is one of very much to few preserved paper works with painterly character. The image carrier is of vegetable origin, a so-called papyrus. 900.020 small-format squares are pre-printed on this material in grid-like fashion. These are filled with 7 pigments of different colors. Viewed at a spatial distance, these arrangements of the pigments in the squares give an abstract representation of plant flowers. Only on closer inspection the artisanal character of the image reveals itsself.

The motive of the flowering of plants stands in the tradition of the late 20th century and has its origins in Italian, French and Dutch artworks starting in the middle of the 16th century of the past cultural epoch. It was all about reproducing a piece of reality and showing the full splendor of the natural spectrum. Qual Fantasy shows flowers in all their glory. They stand for both beauty and departure, alas also for withering and transience. Following an old pictorial recipe, tensions are built up by complementary colors, which may then be somewhat unobtrusive, so that a certain dissonance results beyond the harmony. An artist was at work here, but the work may not have had an intended art character: the rasterized image plane refers to a client. This may have been a design for a technical display, e.g. for a computer, mobile phone or labtop.
The size and the number of pixels results in a technical resolution of 10 dpi at that time.
Qual Fantasy may just be a pseudonym. At that time one and the same artist used quite different signatures for his works. But in our case it is not about the artist, but about the image that has its purpose in the applied field. Nevertheless, it is an image for the eye. It is a picture that gives pleasure when looking at it, even without a possible known name of the creator. In my collection, this work is an example of pure aesthetics, for bare Being beautiful that even in those days often enough was enough to be ultimately art.

The Cabinet of Ramon Haze is a unique collection and 20th century art document. It brings together more than 150 key works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Andreas Baader, Ruth Tauer and Jeff Koons, and traces the developement of their Ouevre and its conceptual foundations. Ramon Haze's historical research reconstructs lost knowledge of the development of the art of the past century, and in doing so paints a picture of the political and social upheavals that have been reflected in the artistic production of the last cultural epoch. Since 1996, Ramon Hazes collection curators Holmer Feldmann and Andreas Grahl have been in charge of the "Cabinet", and they have been instrumental in making it accessible to the public and helping to understand the lost notion of art.